American football Quotes · Page 3

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

— Vince Lombardi

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

— Alex Karras

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

— Doug Plank

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

— Dan Birdwell

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

— Bobby Layne

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

— Lou Holtz

Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.

— Frank Broyles

I played American football, but I did my best work with baseball.

— Steve Miller

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

— Frosty Westering

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as…

— Emmitt Smith

In Dutch football you see a lot of individual quality, but in American football it's really about teamwork. That really appeals to…

— Sergino Dest

When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.

— Dick Vermeil

I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American culture, although I…

— Priyanka Chopra

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

— Deacon Jones

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on…

— Tom Brady

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just…

— George Allen

I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I…

— Lamar Hunt

There is a difference in being in shape and being in football shape. Any one can out on the field and run…

— John Madden

Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota…

— Adam Vinatieri

What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys…

— Mike Shanahan

Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I…

— La'el Collins

Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it…

— John Facenda

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there…

— Lawrence Taylor

Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor.…

— Aaron Rodgers

“And the reason you play American Football, Hiruma-san?" "Because it's fun." (Translated)”

— Riichiro Inagaki

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

— John Elway

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

— Ernie Davis

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

— Urijah Faber

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

— Vince Lombardi

I like to play golf, I love sports, American football, basketballand to eat! And play pool.

— Chace Crawford

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

— Jack Youngblood

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

— Mike Singletary

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

— Chuck Mills

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

— Sue Lawley

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

— Chad Harbach

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

— Pat Dye

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

— Sting

As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself.

— Troy Vincent

Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’.

— Thomas Henderson

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

— Mary McGrory